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XXVI. 
HERTFORDSHIRE MAPS: A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF THE 
MAPS OF THE COUNTY, 1579 to 1900. 
Ey Herbert George Fordham. 
Part II: 1673-1794 ( continued ). 
(See Vol. XI, Part 6, p„ 212.) 
1790. Aikin, John. 7-f X 4^. Scale, about 8 miles =» 
1 inch. 
Outline map without border, filling page of small octavo volume. 
Shows boundary of county by finely-dotted line, the principal 
rivers and their tributaries, including the New Hiver, and the 
chief towns. In the left-hand top corner: “Hertfordshire.” The 
names of the adjacent counties are also inserted in the map. 
From ‘England Delineated; or, a Geographical Description of 
every county in England and Wales : with a concise account of its 
most important products, natural and artificial. For the use of 
Young Persons.’ This is the second edition of this work; the first 
edition, published in 1788, has no maps. London, 1790, 8vo. 
(Eeprinted, 3rd ed. 1795, 4th ed. 1800, 5th ed. 1803, 6th ed. 
1809, all with the county maps; and also, with large additions, 
under the title ' England Described,’ 1818, but without maps. The 
maps are also found bound together, without title, in the Library 
of the British Museum, the volume containing a manuscript 
date 1796.) 
1791. Harrison, John. 18J x 13. Scale, about 2^ miles = 
1 inch. [Engraved July 4, 1788.] 
Bather a plain, hare-looking map, giving the boundaries of the 
hundreds, and the rivers, main and cross roads, towns, villages, 
hamlets, and principal houses, and a few hills. Meridian lines 
across the map, the longitude from St. Paul’s. In right-hand top 
corner, in rectangular panel: “A Map of Hertfordshire, Engraved 
from an Actual Survey, with Improvements,” and a star indicator 
of the north at the top of the line of 20' W. longitude. In the 
left-hand bottom corner a reference to the hundreds, and a scale of 
miles: “English Statute Miles 69|- to a Degree.” Below bottom 
margin : “ London, Engraved for J. Harrison, 115, Newgate Street, 
as the Act directs, July 4, 1788,” and “Haywood del. . . « 
Sudlow sc.” 
From ‘ Maps of the English Counties, with the Subdivisions of 
Hundreds, Wapontakes, Lathes, Wards, Divisions, Etc. to which 
are added two folio pages of Letter-Press, to ■ face each Map j 
descriptive of the Extent, Boundaries, Bivers, Lakes, Canals, Soil, 
Mines, Minerals, Curious Plants, Husbandry, and every Curiosity 
that is nearly connected with the Maps. The whole containing the 
most useful, entertaining, and instructive Selection of the Kind 
that has yet appeared at the Price of 3£ 3s.’ London, 1791, large 
obi. fol. 
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